Twemlow Viaduct

Also known originally as the Dane Viaduct. Built 1841. Engineer: George Watson Buck. Red brick and sandstone. Twenty three semi-circular arches, each of 18 metres span, supported on 3 metre by 8 metre piers. The viaduct now carries the electrified railway from Manchester to Crewe.

See Historic England entry

1842 'PROPOSED OPENING OF THE MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. ...... The section of the works in the offices of the company varies slightly, and for the sake of accuracy we shall go over them again. According to the sections in question the viaduct across Ladybrook consists of seven arches, each thirty feet span; the Dean viaduct, ten arches of thirty feet span each, and two of 181 feet span; the Bollin viaduct nine arches each of 49 feet span, and 65 feet high; the Peover viaduct nine arches, each 40 feet span, and 70 feet high; the Dane viaduct, 23 arches, each of 63 feet span, and 85 feet high from the bed of the river to the level of the railway; the Wheelock viaduct, seven arches of 34 feet span each, and 50 feet high from the bed of the river. In mentioning these we ace not in possession of sufficiently accurate particulars of the viaduct over the Blackden brook (near the Peover;) but thiugh this is accounted one of the smaller works of the kind on the line, it has not been accomplished without difficulty, the right of road having to be preserved across it, and consequently the viaduct runs at a sufficient height to clear both. ....